日本企業における倫理確立に向けての取り組みと管理者の倫理観 : 1994年、2004年、2014年の調査結果の比較をふまえて

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This paper reports the results of a survey study on business ethics in Japan conducted in 2014 and compares the results with two other surveys that were conducted in 1994 and 2004. During the last two decades, Japanese corporations have made great efforts in institutionalizing ethics that parallel the growing interest in business ethics in Japan. Like in the previous two studies, the latest data shows that little has changed in Japanese business managers' views of ethics that include their propensity toward situational ethics and the importance of company policy in their ethical decision-making. However, the current data shows long-term changes in their views such as (i) decline of unethical industry practices, (ii) higher priority to personal ethics in ethical decision, and (iii) indications of ethical rigorousness in some fictitious cases.